TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merish,Lori
TI  - Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
T2  - New Americanists Series
SN  - 9780822377962
AV  - HQ1418 
U1  - 305.42/0973/09034 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Women-United States-Social life and customs-19th century
KW  - Women consumers-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Sex role-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Material culture-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Material culture in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling -- Chapter 1. Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic -- Chapter 2. Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism -- Chapter 3. Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership -- Chapter 4. Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body -- Chapter 5. Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper -- Chapter 6. Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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